INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Svetlana Alexievich (Nobel Prize in Literature 2015)
Martin Baron (Washington Post executive editor)
Tom Brokaw (NBC News anchor, commentator)
Michael Keaton (actor/director)
Mai Khoi (Vietnamese singer/activist, 2018 laureate-Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent)
David McCullough (author, historian)
Jose Omar Rabago Vital (past chair, International Free Expression Exchange — IFEX)
Jillian York (director of international free expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation; deputy chair, IFEX)
INCORPORATING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ex officio: Greg Victor: IFEP founder, executive director; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette senior editor
Chair: Sara Longo: IFEP co-organizer; Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab startup manager; director - Airviz; lead representative - EarthTime
Vice Chair: Henry J. Simonds: filmmaker; artist; entrepreneur; president - Henry John Simonds Foundation (Hillman Family Foundations)
Treasurer: Tony Norman: columnist-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cahssey Augenstein; patron, adviser (Cleveland)
Arthur Steven Beeman: partner, Crowell & Moring LLP (San Francisco)
Phil Hallen: retired president-Maurice Falk Foundation
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE CORE WORKING GROUP
Bill Flanagan: chief corporate relations officer, Allegheny Conference for Community Development
Anne Stark Locher: strategic communications consultant; board member - The MacDowell Colony, Aperture
Martha Rial: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
Rekha Shukla: independent evaluator of nonprofit and government programs
Caroline Suh: art curator; fashion producer
Jordan Taylor: filmmaker; musician; teacher
Alexander Woodring: communications-design-media consultant; former Media Project Manager - Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab
COLLABORATORS
SPECIAL ADVISERS
Ken Paulson (president, First Amendment Center; former president, Newseum; former editor-in-chief - USA TODAY)
Barbara Elfman (former director, Boston Metropolitan Waterworks Museum)
John Hillkirk (senior editor, Kaiser Health News; former editor-in-chief - USAToday)
Ascender
Forbes Funds
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
PATRONS / EVENT HOSTS
Arthur Steven Beeman (partner, Crowell & Moring LLP / San Francisco)
Anne Starke Locher (strategic communications consultant, boards of Aperture Foundation, MacDowell Colony / New York) 
PRIMARY CONTRIBUTORS
Henry John Simonds Foundation (Hillman Family Funds)
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Block Communications Inc.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
William W. Victor
Cahssey and Don Augenstein
John Oller
Jill and Norbert Buelsing Gifting Fund
Jonathan Friendly
Arthur Beeman and  Cate Elsten
Crowell & Moring LLP
Doug Holladay
Rob Long, Clearstory
Carol Steytler, first woman 'pressman' at the Pittsburgh Press / Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1980-2014)
LEGAL COUNSEL
Eric Davis (managing partner, Elliott & Davis PC / Pittsburgh)
Arthur Steven Beeman (founding partner, Beeman & Muchmore LLP / San Francisco / pro bono)
Margaret Sitko (founding member, Sitko Bruno / real estate / Pittsburgh)

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